Sentence examples for a second excuse from inspiring English sources

It's rude and offensive, and being dressed to the nines at a public event doesn't for a second excuse it.

Without for a second excusing that kind of bigotry, without "explaining" it to the point of saying it has no weight, I would say that the conditions of occupation, the isolation, and the surround-sound of propaganda are not exactly ideal for the rise of broadmindedness.

But if, after the rain, Nairobi remains crippled by stringent power and water rationing, the government will be hard put to find a third excuse.

Then the two of them started talking about ammunition, and LaDue came up with a third excuse: he had bought twenty clips, but "they didn't fit on the bolt because they were too wide and they had a feeding problem going in there".

The Italian cycling federation accepted the second excuse and cleared him.

The second excuse is easy to dismiss: actually there is plenty of public appetite for banker bashing to continue.

His second excuse is that he could have claimed far more if he had rented his own flat, or bought a place in London, and saved the taxpayer money by paying a modest rent to his boyfriend.

India needs to reform its absurdly restrictive labour laws which hold back the expansion of manufacturing particularly.The second excuse for doing nothing is practical: there is little room to spend more on schools and hospitals.

Second excuse: "I was drunk".

We mustn't offer a second of excuses - but we should understand why they are acting this way.

"They were a second-tier excuse for Microsoft instead of paying them a real salary.